Joe Kayak Fowley

I took Joe on his first paddle to Fowley Island today....

Setting off from Emsworth...

Made it!

Enjoying the padde :-)

Low Water Kayaking

Me and Simon went for a low water paddle this evening.  Here's Simon pulling his kayak out to the channel...

Top night :-)

Victorious Festival

Me and Karen went to the Victorious Festival in Southsea today.  Here are 'Echo and the Bunneymen' doing their thing :-)

Selfie at the Folk Stage...

Cheers to 'The Slow Readers Club'....top band...

Great day.

Castle United Tactics

The new coach of Castle Utd U8s, Neil, discussing tactics with the team :-)

Beautiful Days 2016

Me and Pete took the kids to the Beautiful Days Festival...

Our Beautiful Days 2016 Film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQ8W6g1OKw&feature=youtu.be

Uno!

The nappy busker...

Joe and Iris making smoothies, people power :-)

I sneaked off to see 'Oh My God It's The Church'.  Never heard of them before but they were brilliant....

I even appear in their YouTube video :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeFquN78igA

Must be lunchtime :-)

Me and Joe had a trip to the stars on the big wheel...

Lisa went about as high on the trampoline....

Clay making....

Two spacemen and an alien...

The kids watching Reef...

Joe the Rocket Man....

Two cool rock dudes...?!?!?

Hula Challenge....

The theme for Sunday was Stars....

'Whyyyyy are we waaaaaiting?'

The umbrella people...

I took the kids to see Billy Bragg.  As entertaining and thought provoking as ever....

Lisa dancing to Terrovision....

Lisa and Natasha in the Big Top doing a jig to 'Mad Dog McCrea'....

Lisa's late night Helter Skelter....

The kids love the late night fried potato shop.  Cider was good too :-)

Fire jugglers...

One of the best performances was from Coral....

The final act of the weekend was The Levellers.  Here are the kids 'dancing' to One Way Of Life....

Finish with fireworks...

Lisa and Joe.  Tired and happy....

Joe helped to clear up on the final morning...

What a great festival :-)

See ya next year.

Balloon Festival

I took the kids down to the Southsea Balloon Festival today....

Our favourite was the spiky doughnut....

Lisa and Joe on the trampolines :-)

Camping East Dean

We went for a wee camping trip up to East Dean with Natalie and Raynor...

Setting up camp in the valley above East Dean...

Lisa in her usual pose :-)

The kids on the rope swing...

We walked through the woods down to East Dean...

The kids playing Yenga Dominoes in the Star and Garter pub....

Bringing back unfeasibly large trees for fire wood...

They got it back :-)

Round the fire...

Seth and Joe....our two resident pyromaniacs...

In the morning the fire was still warm, so we stoked it up and cooked crumpets with Nutella :-)

One last swing :-)

Great trip :-)